what is your favorite type of cookie. not allowed to throw shade not allowed to be mean to each other just say what kinda cookie you like the most. this isn’t a competition just a conversation between friends there is no right answer
As Welcome to Night Vale is gaining another burst of popularity, I do wish to send out a warning to people who are very sensitive to psychotic episodes: be careful if you want to listen to it
If you’re the type of person who has #unreality blacklisted, don’t listen to too many episodes in a row/maybe avoid it all together?
Stay safe <3
i was and still am unable to listen to it but here’s what i remember about it that may be helpful to others and i would greatly appreciate input from people who actually listened to more of it
night vale is, in essence, about a really weird town. the unreality is constant.
- there are many things in it that can trigger paranoia and delusions, like the faceless old woman and 4th wall breaks
- cecil will repeatedly say certain things aren’t real
- cecil repeats things frequently
- doppelgangers
- angels
- droning music
- cecil will change his tone to say something ominous, then go back to talking normal
and please remember, what doesn’t cause psychotic episodes for one person may cause them for another. just because something doesn’t bother you doesn’t mean it won’t bother someone else, so please fucking tag unreality. it’s not infantilizing just do it
the unreality tag is helpful even when people don’t blacklist it.
additional triggers from someone who keeps up with the podcast:
-frequently, cecil narrates stories in the 2nd person (“you”). this can be upsetting because he’s narrating things that aren’t actually happening
-there are descriptions of gore and body horror
-cecil also has multiple experiences comparable to dissociation, derealization, or similar episodes.
@artlessauthorite That’s Eris from Sinbad! I haven’t watched that movie in a literal decade but iirc shes the goddess of chaos? I remember her being a rly good character
at this point i dont even block the blank blogs anymore, theres so few of them compared to the porn bots i figure theyre just twitter refugees trying to survive. like you should probably still put stuff on there to set yourself apart if you do have a blank blog but as it is i dont really care im too busy shooing away these half naked women who keep crawling into my activity feed
